Export for Lightroom¶
krites is built to hand off to Lightroom: cull and correct in krites, finish in Lightroom. There are two ways the work reaches your catalog.
Option A — export a rendered keeper set¶
Export is the only step that writes pixels. It renders the keepers with every
edit baked in — removals → straighten → crop → look — into the shoot's export/
directory, and writes XMP sidecars alongside. Import that set into Lightroom as
finished frames. Given the same records, export is deterministic — re-run it any
time.
Option B — write XMP sidecars beside the originals¶
To surface the cull decisions in Lightroom without a rendered export, write sidecars next to your originals:
Point Lightroom at the originals and the krites verdicts (keep/maybe/reject, as flags/ratings) appear on import — you cull in krites, then finish from your own RAWs in Lightroom.
What does and doesn't travel¶
- Verdicts and develop edits (straighten, crop, look) map to XMP.
- Object removals cannot be represented in Camera-Raw XMP — they exist only in
krites' rendered
export/(Option A). If a keeper has a removal you need in Lightroom, use the exported render.